Typically, media streaming in browser-based environments is based on unicast delivery. Streaming services such as Netflix, DAZN, Amazon Prime, Disney and Youtube use Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to deliver media segments and manifest files in a one-to-one (unicast) fashion to…

Most people in the streaming industry probably watch live streams a bit different from “normal” people. Personally, I am always curious about the formats and settings the streaming providers use and if there is anything special to be found. When…

As part of our work on dash.js we are involved in numerous interesting discussions and face various exciting problems. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is definitely one of the most challenging areas in the context of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming and…

FAMIUM SAND is an analytics tool for content providers to monitor the performance of their streaming services. In this blog post, we continue to explore SAND’s debugging capabilities using two more concrete examples. For our first example check out Part…

FAMIUM SAND is an analytics tool for content providers to monitor the performance of their streaming services. What makes SAND stand out from other analytics tools is its debugging-oriented design and in this two-part blog post, we are going to…

One of the key features of a production grade video player is the ability to recover from critical errors. Talking about web-based video players there are a lot of potential errors that can cause the playback to fail. From our…

During the WWDC 2021 conference, Apple announced a new tool called Advanced Video Quality Tool (AVQT): “AVQT is a macOS command line tool, which estimates perceptual quality of compressed videos, that might contain video coding and scaling artifacts”. [1] Similarly…

In the second blog post of the SAND series, we will take a detailed look at the different FAMIUM SAND dashboards: Real-Time Monitoring, Reporting, Errors Overview, DRM/ Media/ XHR Errors and Session Details. Read on to discover what the purpose…

Short answer: No, it’s ‘cbcs’ time. If you would like to understand this better, keep on reading. The Common Encryption standard ISO/IEC 23001-7 is the enabler for multi-DRM-protected DASH/HLS streams. It is not quite “common encryption” as the name suggest,…

Welcome to the first blog post of our latest series „SAND“! Here we will introduce our solution „FAMIUM SAND“ by explaining what it is and why it’s important, especially for content providers. We’ll keep our discussion high-level, but if you…